The Biggest Technology Flops of the Decade

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Outragous Jane of CO 3:31PM August 13, 2010

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hotel buchen muenster of 6:19PM April 08, 2010

I have to say I junped on the Toshiba bandwagon when the HD craze happened and I still use it. To Toshiba's credit even after Blu-Ray won out Toshiba continued to send me FREE updates for several month's, most unexpected, thanks to Toshiba.

Richard Brown of GA 7:52AM February 27, 2010

it should be the first one on the list

gil of CA 7:33PM January 05, 2010

It wasn't and still isn't ready for prime time. The first ones wouldn't even play regular DVD's? So far I have had two Blu-Ray machines by two different manufacturers. The first wouldn't let me update its firmware and the the second won't play some blu-ray DVD's all the way through. I never had an issue with my old Toshiba HD DVD player. And for the record, I always thought the Beta VCR machines recorded better and had the best picture.

JPS of NE 10:33PM December 30, 2009

Sony actually sold 150,000 Aibo's over the life of the product, representing perhaps $250 million to $300 million revenue. While this is perhaps small in comparison to netbooks and iphones, it is hardly pocket change. Aibo became one of the core development platforms for artificial intelligence research within universities, in particular for RoboCup Soccer 4-legged League competitions, and within that community, loss of Aibo was most keenly felt.

hgordon of CA 1:36PM December 30, 2009

"It" is coming. That thing was so over hyped it was ridiculous. It was supposed to revolutionize travel(rolling my eyes). A true example of over engineering --- bikes are a more elegant and cheaper solution.

nate of CO 9:14AM December 30, 2009

I'm surprised you left out things like refrigerators with web access. There's no better place to read than standing on a hard tile floor, on a low rez mustard smeared screen you can't raise to eye level.
http://is.gd/5EvPi/webfrig
And in defense of the journalist, UMPC is a very specific term which does NOT include Netbooks. They are tablet PCs, for one thing:
"UMPC: The term stands for ultra-mobile PC, and actually has fairly concrete origins in the Project Origami catastrophe headed up by Microsoft. Under Intel and Microsoft's guidelines, technically the form factor is defined as touchscreen mini-tablet smaller than eight inches with a resolution of at least 800 pixels wide."

Gene Ha of IL 2:05PM December 28, 2009

Back in 2005,N-gage was one of most popular stuffs in my college..almost half of the peoples,my friends using N-gage and even me because of it's easy to share files,good quality music(w/ good equalizer),even having great games..I always waiting for the new N-gage to come out.But again,N-gage is never a mistake!

ijal of LA 6:35AM December 28, 2009